Jefferson Davis Highway

The Jefferson Davis Highway was a planned transcontinental highway in the United States which was founded in 1913. The United Daughters of the Confederacy planned to build a highway named after the Confederate president Jefferson Davis which would run from Arlington, Virginia west to San Diego, California, but conflict between the National Auto Trail movement and the federal government prevented the highway's completion. Remaining portions exist in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, and its portion north of the Occoquan River in northern Virginia was renamed to "Richmond Highway" in 2019, while its portion in Washington was renamed to "William P. Stewart Memorial Highway" in honor of an African-American American Civil War veteran and a pioneer of Snohomish.